Nevada Republican Party

The Nevada Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the US state of Nevada. The party was in power in the state at the time of statehood, as the people were loyal to the president who had brought them into the union, Abraham Lincoln. However, after 1871, the Nevada Democratic Party won four out of the six constitutional positions in the state government. From 1932 to the 1990s, as the result of the Great Depression, the Democratic Party held the majority throughout the state, but the Republicans became the majority in 1994 and 1998. In 2002, the Republicans swept all of the offices of Nevada, and it went back and forth between the two parties' presidential candidates after 1992. The party supported less government, more individual responsibility, less regulations on businesses, and lower taxes. In 2018, it held a minority of upper and lower house seats.